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Welcome to the Ellervik Research Group

The philosophy of the Ellervik group is focused on using
carbohydrates in a smart way to reach biological goals, i.e. to
intervene biosynthetic pathways and thereby use these for other
purposes.

The role of carbohydrates in biological systems is complex and
carbohydrates are today known to be vital in highly sophisticated
signaling and transportation systems. Most effort in synthetic
carbohydrate chemistry today is directed towards knowledge about
protein-carbohydrate interactions and design of specific inhibitors.
However, our approach is instead to intervene the biosynthesis of
natural compounds and use the transportation process in order to direct
a drug to a specific cell type (e.g. tumor cells). In short, we would
like to “hijack” the biosynthesis and use it for other
purposes.